Racial integration

Racial integration, or simply integration, in United States usage, includes desegregation (the process of ending systematic racial segregation). In addition to desegregation, integration includes goals such as leveling barriers to association, creating equal opportunity regardless of race, and the development of a culture that draws on diverse traditions, rather than merely bringing a racial minority into the majority culture. Desegregation is largely a legal matter, integration largely a social one.

Notes

Oscar Handlin, "The Goals of Integration", Daedalus 95 (Winter 1966): 270, cited by MacGregor in the quotation given above.

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